How to Save your Potato Crop if you get Blight
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Potato blight can cause a huge problem by destroying your crops if you let it run its course. This video shows you what to do at 2 different stages if you have blight. Useful links:
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Blight has hit quick over the last few days so I'm cutting off all the foliage on my precious king edwards today. I know there are some decent sized potatoes in the ground because I lifted a couple of plants and I want to save the rest of them. Your information is better than anything I've read so far. So glad I found this video
Oh man, your vids are getting more n more slick. Loved the aerial flyby and also the 2ndary input. Good one :-)
It was great to see your dad in your video you both have very helpful tips thank you
Thanks, so much for sharing. Finding helpful information on this topic is very difficult. Most people tell you to remove any affected plants, but this has never been helpful to me. I have grown potatoes off and on for a total of 3 or 4 years and every year they have gotten blight. They seem to get it well before the tubers are sufficiently formed and I ultimately end up with no harvest. I'm glad to know that there are potential options.
Try growing early and second early varieties only . In England you can plant in late feb early march and the tuberz should be well sized before blight season .
could you please advise the best way to store potatoes, and how long they will be ok stored? thanks for your great videos, I really enjoy all the info you give us
That was the most practical video I have watched on the problem , thank you from Australia 👍
Great information, thanks. This is the first year I have blight
Wonderful information; thanks to you both! ;)
I live in Galicia (north of Spain, similar climate as Wales I believe, if any a bit warmer which makes it even worse for blight infestation) and we’ve been having a really rough time with this issue both in potatoes and tomatoes. It would be great if you made a video on tomato mildew since I don’t think any of my plants will make it through this season and I would like to plan some strategy to try to have better results next year. Thank you so much!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful video
Great information, thank you
thank you for good information. I haven't yet grown potatoes, but want to try next year. is there any way to prevent potatoe blight from starting? And where exactly does it come from?
This is very helpful. Thank you.
good one, thanks for the advice!
Thanks for that most helpful advice 👩🌾
Have you tried to spray onion brew? I was successful on tomato with that method last year. The blight on the potato was already too advanced, so even though it helped a bit, but the plant was already too weak.
Great advice thank you
Excellent advice thank you !👍😄
Great advice. I have an allotment and my crop of potatoes have been ruined by blight. I have taken out the potatoes but my soil smells awful now from the rotting.
My question is can I grow in that soil next year and what could I grow in soil that has had blight in, and any advice for the what to do with the soil and the rotting smell.
Thanks
Hi Huw, Would you recommend a Bluestone & washing soda mix to spray to prevent blight? I think its known as the Burgandy mix? Thx
I take it affected voliage should not be added to a compost pile?
Hi, first year growing potatoes and I was waiting for them to flower to harvest. Mine are in potato containers but it has been especially wet and rainy thanks to storms in the gulf and it’s hot and humid. This morning I checked and I have a few leaves with brown spots. My foliage is really healthy otherwise. And I have 4 containers. Only one is showing spots. I don’t know what to do, should I cut them all back or wait and see if more signs appear?
have you tried blight resistant varieties and crop rotation every year? how did that work?
What do you do with the blighted material? Not in the compost but where do you put it?
Those arial shots 😍😍😍 this is my dream garden ! I live in jamaica so blights not really a problem here. Most of my potatoes, tomates and yams end up ok . I'll move to north Florida soon tho not about how it will be there do thanks for the info .
Dear Huw - I would like to plant some potatoes in the next fortnight using your 'Lazy Way' technique - will this work as the weather gets cooler and more damp - I am in the South of England.
I just planted mine a couple.of months ago so they are no where near harvesting but I think with the rain now they have blight. Ots to early to dig them.plus they are in pots. Is there anything I can do? Thanls
my leaves are turning a bit brown here and there on my potato plants which are in potato grow bags. Can this also mean not enough watering? we did have some dry weather recently
We live in Southeast Texas-Nacogdoches, to be exact. It rains frequently here. Mold is a problem we have es to watch for. A friend of ours is preparing seed potatoes to plant, but they have spots of white mold on them. This friend told me that these are ok to plant. Is that true? I would hate to see them ruin their crop.
I did some research on the trials of ultra-fine netting to protect from late blight. They're talking about the possibility that the netting is reducing the availability of UV light. Also mentioning that the ultra-fineness of the netting may result in rain run-off stopping the foliage getting the damp conditions loved by late blight. My own thought is that once that ultra-fine netting becomes saturated with damp, fog or rainwater, it may act as a barrier to exclude the late blight spores. The reported results were inconclusive, as there was little blight when they ran tests. As I'm intending to plant a late (mid-July) batch of King Edward potatoes for Christmas Dinner, I'll be giving this a go. Perhaps others could join me, the ultra-fine 0.6mm apperture netting being cheap enough, and you guys could run a project to analyse the results?
Thanks for a lot of useful information, but when is ‘now’ (3:00 in the video). How many weeks ago did you plant these? Mine have only been in the ground about 4 weeks and one or two of them have blight. The foliage on all of them is good though.
I appreciate this alot
The son is so handsome and the video is informative!
How do you tell the difference from blight and natural die back?
Natural dieback occurs after flowering and will not have the small brown dots very close in proximity
Urghhh. My potatos flowered and had berries. I think it’s close to start dying off they have been growing for a while and starting to yellow at the bottom but some leaves are getting dark tips and there’s some spots
Thank you irish gods for a wonderful gardening lecture. What is the best way to get a good yield with bigger potatoes and maximum yield.
We're having quite a series of thunderstorms out here, wet humid weather. It's my first year growing potatoes and this morning I found signs of what I think is blight on my plants, came in and watched this video, then went back out and pruned off the affected plants and disposed of the clippings in a plastic bag. By the time I was done it had started raining again!
Thank you for such a practical video..
@@that_auntceleste5848 and what did you do with the plastic bag ?
@@happydace4866 tied and disposed in trash
How to I deal/treat potato leaf curl?
Can you still use the soil for next time?
can you use the soil to plant something else after the potatos have been removed?
Hi Huw, do you have a video about tomato blight? I've just dug up all my tomato plants as they were severely affected by blight. I've been working long hours recently and hadn't managed to keep on top of things in the garden and now I'm concerned that I should have got them out sooner. What do I do with the soil? Do I need to dig it over to get all the roots out? I had french beans growing right next to some of the plants, will they be ok?. As the spores travel, should I refrain from putting anything on my compost?
Hope you can help!
Tomatoes and potatoes are both solanum family. It's the same blight but on different plants.
I had a few potatoes go bad on me & it looks like blight. When I dug up to potatoes there were withe strings in the soil. Does that sound like blight?
How do you know if the blight made its way to the tubers?
Can you plant in the same soil
If you have cut your foliage down to remove the blight and leave the potatoes for two weeks can you reuse the compost they were grown in? Very useful video. Many thanks.
The compost they were grown in will have lost most of its goodness. Some people mix it back into their compost heap or mix in some fertiliser. However I've also been told it's best to grow a different crop in it, rotate crops around so they not growing in same place each year, in case the soil gets infected by something that kills a particular crop. By planting something different you don't give it anything to infect, so it dies off by the following year. I'm new to all this, so it be good to know how accurate this info is. Do you know if you can compost the blighted stems/leaves?
I watched a video that said that the spores remain in the soil for 3 yrs
Thank you for that. Had to cut back all of mine from the bed. 😢
How do you deal with potato black leg?
Hi Huw, I've started growing potatoes in a sack, Planted them in mid March this year. The sack is practically full to the rim but it has not started to flower yet. Last week i noticed aphids on the leaves (i think i caught them early) and used a washing iquid solution to treat them. It's done the job well. Yesterday i noticed browning leaves and i'm pretty sure it is blight.
As the crops haven't flowered yet does this mean they are all inedible? is their anyway of saving this?
(P.S i bought your veg in one bed book without previously looking into your work so it was lovely to see your video first when searching resolutions. )
Many Thanks,
Jodie.
FYI they are Maris Pipers. I'm not sure if this information helps.
Did your crop work out?
What do you do with the plants as you cannot compost them I would imagine?
You throw them in the garbage bin. The spores can spread if you put them in the compost bin. If you did get any potatoes, you have to use them right away, because you have to check for blight inside the potato.
Is there any like liquid or any watering solution to get rid of blight
There's nothing according to the Royal Horticultural Society, although one of the UK’s biggest seed potato producers, Jamieson Brothers in Scotland, do sell a spray.
You should do some more videos with your dad! :D
His dad, I thought it was a friend or brother. Looks very young 😁
Hi Huw. I grew my potatoes in buckets and got blight. Do I need to sterilize the soil? Thanks!
My understanding is that you need to completely remove the soil (to the council tip, never your compost heap), sterilise your containers, and buy new compost. Any plant remains must also never touch your compost heap.
Can you compost those tops or should you trash them?
Trash I would suggest, just to be safe :)
nice
Iv'e just noticed what I think is blight.Brown patches on some leaves. The whole plant is a bit yellow as well not like my other potato plants. These are vivaldi and are the only ones affected. Planted mid march so close to harvest for second earlies. There are only two in containers. Do I have to cut away folliage and leave them 2 weeks. Or could I just lift them now? I have felt around under surface and found a smallish nice looking potato.Hopefully there will be a lot more bigger ones deeper down. I am in South Wales by the way.
Needed this info so bad... as soon as the rain stops and I can get out there I’ll be out there... thank you... also good to know not to put in compost.
Until gardeners get access to the same blight sprays that commercial growers have you are always going to have this problem.
No!
Jamieson Brothers are selling a blight spray. No idea if it's any good or how it compares to what the commercial growers are using.
Use the method thais eco-friendly, check potatoes every day and remove blighted foliage as soon as you see it. Put in some effort sprays are for lazy gardeners/growers.
Is it safe to compost the blighted cuttings? ...and worth leaving them in the sun first to dry a bit before composting them?
Bury them or cover them with a tarp for a few weeks if you live where it freezes bag them let them freeze then add to compost
When you plant potatoes for fun but it turns into the irish potato famine.
Is that your dad? You shouldn't introduce him ! :)